Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks

Volume 1: A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain

The Social Learning Group
The MIT Press, 2001

Part II: Studies of Arenas

Chapter 8
Shifting Priorities and the Internationalization of Environmental Risk Management in Japan

8.1	Introduction
8.2	Early Air Pollution Control Efforts
8.3	Acid Rain
8.3.1	Acid Rain as a Health Concern
8.3.2	European and North American Interest in Japanese Pollution Control Techniques
8.3.3	Research and Monitoring of Acid Rain
8.4	Ozone Depletion
8.4.1	Scientific Developments
8.4.2	The CFC Industry
8.4.3	Policy Activity
8.5	Climate Change
8.5.1	Scientific Developments
8.5.2	Getting Climate Change onto the Policy Agenda
8.5.3	Risk and Response Assessments
8.6	Policy Implementation
8.6.1	Acid Rain
8.6.2	Ozone Depletion
8.6.3	Climate Change
8.7	Learning in the Management of Global Environmental Risks
Appendix 8A	Acronyms
Appendix 8B	Chronology Notes References
Figure 8.1	Attention to global atmospheric issues in Japan: Acid rain
Figure 8.2	Attention to global atmospheric issues in Japan: Ozone depletion
Figure 8.3	Attention to global atmospheric issues in Japan: Climate change